imposter syndrome

“What I quickly realized is that by talking back to the anxiety, it actually made the waves of anxiety longer and the feelings of fraudulence more pronounced.”

“Because imposter syndrome doesn't just attack specific skills. It attacks your character. It attacks your identity. It attacks everything you believe makes you.”

“The first thing you need to know about imposter syndrome is it goes in waves. When it's a zero out of 10, I'm feeling really confident about the work I'm doing, and I just feel like I have my swagger. When it's a 10 out of 10, I'm feeling self-conscious, it's …”

“The third effect, and I'd say the most detrimental, is that when I experience imposter syndrome, it makes me lose confidence in doing the things I'm actually really good at. And that's because imposter syndrome doesn't just attack specific skills. It attacks y…”

“If I repeat this enough times out loud to myself, it will allow me to sit with provoking thoughts of imposter syndrome without obsessing about them over and over in a way that impacts my ability to perform.”

“I've noticed at points in my career when I'm a 10 out of 10 on the imposter syndrome spectrum, the way that I work changes. First, I lose any semblance of work-life balance. I find myself having to work harder and harder to make up for this feeling that I don'…”